The fourth season of AMC's television series The Walking Dead will premiere in October 2013 and consist of 16 episodes. The series is based on the series of comic books of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard; it was developed for television by Frank Darabont, and is ex-ecutive produced by Kirkman, Scott M. Gimple, Greg Nicotero, and Gale Anne Hurd.